León Klimovsky
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. León Klimovsky (16 October 1906–8 April 1996) was an Argentine film director. A trained dentist, born in Buenos Aires, his real passion was always the cinema. He pioneered Argentine cultural movement known as cineclub and financed the first movie theater to show art movies. He also founded Argentina's first film club in 1929. After participating as scriptwriter and assistant director of 1944's Se abre el abismo he filmed his first movie, an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Player. From this first phase, it can be also highlighted the adaptations of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo and Ernesto Sabato's The Tunnel. On the 1950s Klimovsky settled in Spain, where he becomes a "professional" director. He went into spaghetti westerns and so-called exploitation films, filming in Mexico, Italy and Egypt. Perhaps he is best remembered for his contribution to Spain's horror film genre, beginning with La noche de Walpurgis. León Klimovsky confessed to have always dreamt of doing great vanguard movies but ended on filming commercial ones, but without remorse, as doing cinema was a vocational mandate for him. On 1995 he won the "Honor Award" of the Spanish Film Director Association. He died in Madrid of a heart attack. He was brother to the Argentine mathematician and philosopher Gregorio Klimovsky. Description above from the Wikipedia article León Klimovsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies (49)
Amo tu cama rica
as Tornatto
1992
El robobo de la jojoya
1991
The Brother from Space
1988
The Sea Serpent
as Dr. Moore
1985
Dos mejor que uno
as Librero
1984
The Most Beautiful Night
1984
Cristóbal Colón, de oficio... descubridor
1982
Maravillas
as Santos
1981
The Shack
Director (Directing)
1979
El sexo ataca (1ª jornada)
as Chochoffsky
1979
Trauma
Director (Directing)
1978
¿Y ahora qué, señor fiscal?
Director (Directing)
1977
Three Days in November
Director (Directing)
1977
The Kidnapping
Director (Directing)
1976
The People Who Own the Dark
Director (Directing)
1976
Amor casi... libre
as Representante de Foscafé (uncredited)
1976
Death of a Hoodlum
Director (Directing)
1975
The Night of the Walking Dead
Director (Directing)
1975
A Dragonfly for Each Corpse
Director (Directing)
1975
The Devil's Possessed
Director (Directing)
1974
Mean Mother
Director (Directing)
1974
I Saw Her First
as Faustino
1974
I Hate My Body
Director (Directing)
1974
El talón de Aquiles
Director of Photography (Camera)
1974
The Vampires' Night Orgy
Director (Directing)
1973
Vengeance of the Zombies
Director (Directing)
1973
The Dracula Saga
Director (Directing)
1973
Dr. Jekyll and the Werewolf
Director (Directing)
1972
La casa de las Chivas
Director (Directing)
1972
El hombre que vino del odio
Director (Directing)
1972
Hands Up, Dead Man! You're Under Arrest
Director (Directing)
1971
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
Director (Directing)
1971
Reverend's Colt
Director (Directing)
1970
A Lady Called Andrew
Writer (Writing)
1970
Los hombres las prefieren viudas
Director (Directing)
1970
Challenge of McKenna
Screenplay (Writing)
1970
Quel maledetto ponte sull'Elba
Director (Directing)
1969
Quinto: Fighting Proud
Director (Directing)
1969
A Bullet for Rommel
Director (Directing)
1969
Seven Into Hell
Director (Directing)
1968
Death Knows No Time
Director (Directing)
1968
Rattler Kid
Director (Directing)
1967
Die Easy in Ghentar
Director (Directing)
1967
A Few Dollars for Django
Director (Directing)
1966
Una chica para dos
Director (Directing)
1966
Two Thousand Dollars for Coyote
Director (Directing)
1966
La colina de los pequeños diablos
Director (Directing)
1965
Escala en Tenerife
Director (Directing)
1964
Billy the Kid
Director (Directing)
1964
